You're right that it's not one of my favorite episodes by any means, but I was mostly just trying for a somewhat humorous way to kick off the thread. Whether or not I succeeded is, I suppose, open to debate.

You're right that it's not one of my favorite episodes by any means, but I was mostly just trying for a somewhat humorous way to kick off the thread. Whether or not I succeeded is, I suppose, open to debate.

a) Major interaction with supporting characters. The Futurama protagonists often tend to stay a little too much "among themselves" (This is one of the few things that's better handled by the Simpsons, imhO).b) It was one of those episodes when they cancelled the severe Mary Sueism (Groening seemed to be so fond in the early days ) on Leela and used her for comedy screw ups like everyone else. And guess what? It worked

Nice introduction to the Robot Mafia. And the blinded Leela was seriously funny as hell. Alas, the episode could have been better in some ways. It was good though, don't get me wrong. The Comedy/Mafia references made up for whatever felt lost from the ep.

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